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Update on Parking Lot

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 2:58 AM by elandes
It's been a while. I wanted to give some more insight on how we are proceeding putting constraints in our parking lot. For some change management processes, your customers might be able to submit as many change tickets as they want. In most scenarios, Read More...
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Kanban Process Template for TFS

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:40 PM by elandes
I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex. The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban. This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template. Read More...
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Kanban Backlog (Parking Lot) limits.

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:03 PM by elandes
I wanted to write an update about our change management system. Now that we have a kanaban system driving our change process we are ready to limit certain parts of our current Kanban. See this post for my earlier thoughts on what we would do. That post Read More...
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Some Surprising Results from Utilizing Kanban

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 3:49 AM by elandes
I wanted to share some general accomplishments from our first quarter of using Kanban in terms of metrics. Our cycle times have been slashed in half! Our backlog is the lowest I've ever seen it at. And we've been able to quickly identify blockages Read More...
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Thoughts on Constraining or Limiting your backlog (Kanban Stuff!)

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:14 AM by elandes
It's time for a little feedback on where we are for our Kanban system for Change Manaement. For explanations of how and why we are implementing this sytem, please look at the posts, Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog post. , and the Read More...
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Project Managers and Testing

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 2:05 PM by elandes
Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing . Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan. I would argue that if you are using an agile methodology testing is baked Read More...
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Documenting Work Standards

Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:14 AM by elandes
Corey Ladas has a post about document work standards . This got me to thinking, how in our kanban we might document our work standards. Our issue is that we are going all electronic. We will have an overhead display to flash the kanban boards. I had never Read More...
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Effective Metrics for your Change Management or Sustaining Engineering efforts

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:40 PM by elandes
Now that we've been implementing our Kanban for over 1 month, we've got our metrics a little settled. The system has proven it can bring down our backlog. With focused effort you can see improvements. The metrics that I believe are important include Read More...
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